2 weeks
AI Readiness Sprint
£8,500
Maturity assessment, a ranked register of use cases scored on value and risk, a 90-day action plan and a board briefing.
For businesses of 50–500 people
You don't need a Big Four budget to get Big Four results.
Senior-led AI and digital transformation for growing businesses — delivered personally by someone who built it at scale, not by a team of graduates with a slide template.
25 yrs
At PwC UK
1,000+
Practitioners in a CoE built from zero
£50m+
Programmes delivered
The gap
Mid-market firms want AI. Almost nobody sells to them properly.
If any of this sounds like your last twelve months, the problem isn't the technology.
01
Overwhelmed by hype
Every vendor promises transformation. Few deliver an outcome anyone can measure. Knowing where to start has never been harder.
02
Locked out by price
The consultancies with the strongest practitioners charge enterprise day rates — and you pay for associate teams and slide decks, not senior delivery.
03
Burned once already
The software went live and nobody used it. Processes unchanged, ROI unproven. The tool was fine. Adoption was the problem.
What you can buy
Named work, fixed prices, no open-ended day rates.
Each of these is a defined piece of work with a deliverable you keep. You'll know the price before the first meeting ends.
4 weeks
Copilot Launchpad
£15,000
A governed Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout: policy pack, prompt library, champion training and an adoption dashboard.
6 weeks
Process Automation Pilot
£22,000
One end-to-end process automated in Power Platform, handed over with a runbook your team can actually maintain.
3 weeks
Data Foundation Review
£11,000
A map of your data estate, an honest quality assessment, a governance model and a platform recommendation.
3 weeks
AI Governance Pack
£12,500
AI usage policy, risk register, EU AI Act and UK regulatory mapping, plus plain-English guidance for staff.
Ongoing
Fractional Digital Director
£4,000/mo
Two days a month at board level: strategy, vendor oversight and roadmap governance without a full-time hire.
Not sure which one? The Readiness Sprint exists to answer exactly that — in two weeks, for a fixed fee.
How engagements grow
Start small. Only scale what works.
Most clients begin with a two-week assessment and decide from there. Nothing commits you to the next stage.
Assess
Find out what's actually worth doing, before spending anything on doing it.
- Digital and AI maturity baseline
- Process audit
- Prioritised roadmap
Transform
Senior-led delivery, built so your own team can own it afterwards.
- Power Platform builds and Copilot deployment
- Process redesign
- Change, training and adoption
Sustain
A trusted digital adviser on call, so the value doesn't decay after go-live.
- Quarterly strategy reviews
- New use cases as they emerge
- Platform health and governance
The Mantra Method
Prove it here before you scale it here.
The commonest mid-market failure is a large deployment decision taken on a vendor's claims rather than evidence from your own environment. This method makes that impossible.
1
Orient
Where are we actually?
Maturity baseline
2
Prioritise
What's worth doing first?
Ranked use-case register
3
Prove
Does this work here?
Pilot in production
4
Scale
How do we roll it out?
Governed deployment
5
Sustain
How does value survive us?
Runbook and ownership
Sustain returns to Orient. The method is a cycle, not a line — a fresh baseline twelve months on, because transformation isn't an event you finish.
Nilesh Solanki
Founder & Principal
- 25 yrsDigital transformation at PwC UK
- 1,400+UK practitioners in the Power Platform community I led
- 100+Applications delivered through the Centre of Excellence I founded
- £50m+Transformation programmes delivered
- BoardsTrustee roles across national charities and a schools trust
Who you work with
The person you meet is the person who does the work.
I spent twenty-five years at PwC UK, where I founded and scaled the firm's national Power Platform Centre of Excellence from a standing start — governance, adoption, training and delivery for a community of over a thousand practitioners.
That experience taught me something the vendor market keeps getting wrong: the technology is rarely the hard part. Getting several hundred people to change how they work, safely and permanently, is the hard part. It's also the part that determines whether the investment returns anything.
Mantra exists to bring that discipline to businesses that could never justify a Big Four engagement — at a fifth of the cost, with no leverage pyramid and no junior team learning on your budget.
Start here
A 30-minute call costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Bring the problem you're actually stuck on. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll tell you on the call and point you somewhere better.
- Email nilesh.solanki.uk@gmail.com
- Phone +44 7956 957864
- Based in London, working across the UK and internationally